WOODBURY -- Home for Ed Hagen and his wife, Linda, has been Woodbury since 1972. But today Hagen goes all the way home when he boards a plane and takes off for Michigan. It is Detroit where he was born, Detroit where he was a three-sport star for Catholic Central High School, and Detroit where he enjoyed his greatest achievement in sports.

Monday afternoon, prior to the start of a 1 p.m. game between the Tigers and the Tampa Bay Rays, Hagen will walk onto the field at Comerica Park with a few of his Detroit buddies for ceremonies honoring their 1959 American Legion national championship season.

Remarkably, the first Michigan team to win a Legion Series since 1959 was the team from Midland, Mich., which won the 2009 title 50 years after the Detroit triumph. The Tigers plan to honor the Midland team later this season.

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